Table 2.

Thyroid function of the patient prior, during, and after the course of her admission. The reference intervals for fT3, fT4 and TSH are 3.5–6.5 pmol/L, 10–22 pmol/L and 0.27–4.2 mU/L, respectively. D/C = discharge. ^∗Estimated by spiking into normal patient serum.

Timing	fT3 (pmol/L)	fT4 (pmol/L)	TSH (mU/L)
3 months prior	3.8	11	3.00
Day 1	$\simeq {330}^{\ast }$	11	<0.02
Day 2	$\simeq {106}^{\ast }$	9	<0.02
Day 3	$\simeq {43.0}^{\ast }$	–	–
Day 4	29.2	–	–
Day 5	25.5	–	–
Day 6	21.7	–	–
Day 7	21.7	–	–
Two weeks post D/C	3.2	10	2.56